Nvidia is obviously testing the waters to see if they can pull off an "Extreme Edition" play in the graphics space. The more people who buy this thing, the more they're likely to conclude that the market does see a $1000 graphic part as acceptable and this will become the new price point for their top-end card for generations to come.

Nvidia is obviously testing the waters to see if they can pull off an "Extreme Edition" play in the graphics space. The more people who buy this thing, the more they're likely to conclude that the market does see a $1000 graphic part as acceptable and this will become the new price point for their top-end card for generations to come.

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Statistically nobody will buy it. Even if they make a 100,000 pieces run and sell them all that's not even 0.1% of nVidia's quarterly shipping figures. This launch is just for show and PR.

Depending that I could use this for Sketchup (which my 680 is stuttering to run), CAD, 3ds Max (Mental ray) gpu accelerated 3d rendering; I might actually consider buying this for a price range of $700-$850.

this would put the 7970ghz in the 350-400$ mark similar to how 6970 was selling for

now this all wouldve been possible if 28nm wasnt as expensive as it is, but maybe on the next round of 28nm parts as it would be older tech and tsmc would lower prices
and the choice nvidia made by starting with the smaller chip is to avoid another fermi like dilemma were they were selling a 550mm2 die on a new process for 350 and less(i remember my friend picking up gtx 470 for 220$) not to mention how bad the yield was for these big chips

Titan started in pre-order at £839 (two models, Asus, Gigabyte).
Then they added a custom water blocked (and I enquire about ETA) at £929.
When the water block version appeared the vanilla Titans went up to £859.
Having enquired yesterday and getting a reply from OcUK about unknown ETA, the water block version is now at £989 and the vanilla ones are at £899.

Nice price hikes there OcUK, well done, my wallet's going elsewhere (yes - I'm getting a Titan, if i can get it underwater).

In comparison Ebuyer has had them static at £827 on pre-order (5 models).
Scan is at about £859- no wait, they metaphorically have just jumped through the roof. Now Scan has vanilla cards at >£900 Good god.

Just thought I'd post an update on the UK pricing at 3 major online retailers.

The worst part is that OcUK sold 7+ Gigabyte cards at £959 when Ebuyer had them at £830. I cannot understand anybody who doesn't look around when spending such vast amounts. I'm a ball hair away from buying a card.......

OcUK top right, Scan bottom left, Ebuyer bottom right. I seriously hope UK folk look at this and tell the price gougers to f*ck off. A £130 price difference on the same available card between OcUK and Ebuyer. That my friends is bad pricing. :shadedshu